Big Dance Theater

My work is fueled by an impulse to create multiple theatrical systems and allow them to exist simultaneously: allowing one world of movement, text, history and music to act upon another. Operating under the premise that life is less orderly and more ambiguous than any one source. Allowing that colliding worlds and histories shed light on each other.

Annie-B reflects on her goals in the Hatchery, Hatchery Retreat Oct. 2012

Development Residency for Alan Smithee @ MANCC

The Virtuosity of Structure @ MANCC

Annie-B shares her lecture on Tools for Understanding Abstraction

“I wanted to create this talk because I often sense a discomfort in the audience around abstraction and non-narrative work, and I thought I would challenge myself to find an inclusive way to introduce the workings of abstraction.”

Focal Points

Tere O’Connor’s Hatchery Commissioned Essay for BDT 25th Anniversary

Alan Smithee Directed this Play Promotional video

An Experiment in Engagement with Big Dance Theater

BDT engaged with local tweens in Vermont to sing and record 1970s pop songs that were later woven into the sound score for Alan Smithee Directed This Play

The Hatchery Project has been made possible with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Chocolate Factory, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Philadelphia Live Arts Project, RED Arts Project, and Vermont Performance Lab.